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#47 if you will please

Quick! I need 5 space fighters fast! Fully loaded and with top notch piolts! Its an emergency........... If you can get them to hanger 47 in no time flat I'll pay the normal fee plus I'll give you 5 Suncrusher Torpedos, you know those will pull a huge profit!

how many bullets? sorry, I meant how many guns, but anyway...

so one of those shoulder-mounted (or arm-mounted, whatever) howitzers, a IR/UV/VR helmet, a couple of uzis, and that nice vintage M60 sitting over there in the corner, if it pleases you, and ammunition for all of them. I think I'll get more as I see fit, but this is enough for the moment. Can I just pile them all into a couple non-descript black duffle bags?

I couldn't find hangar 47, so I created a new thread at http://www.h2g2.com/F35868?thread=83392&post=662718 Now, NYC, here, sir, are your duffle bags. They're as non-descript as possible, concidering that by carrying them you look like you're acting out a scene from the Matrix.

I couldn't find hangar 47, so I created a new thread at http://www.h2g2.com/F35868?thread=83392&post=662718 Now, NYC, here, sir, are your duffle bags. They're as non-descript as possible, concidering that by carrying them you look like you're acting out a scene from the Matrix.

thanks, and what's to say I'm not?

*NYC exits the hangar*

thanx

~Red updates his list of clients. He keeps a very carefull list in case he should ever be betrayed~

check 47 again it will explain

Thank you. It does, however, make sense to keep such a list. After all, if a member of CHOPPERS did happen to purchase something from me, it'd make great blackmail.

Yes, it does make a lot of since and would give you alot of leverage

Er, I'm still standing here, you know.

BTW, Red, I've got a little shopping to do and I thought about the most likely places to get what I need. Well, you're one of the few people who would probably have most of this stuff (even though most of this stuff is actually legit), and I remembered all of your previous dealings with CLI, so I came here. Let's see, I need...

A motor unit, navigation unit box, a life support system, a medikit, and a nuclear reactor, all compatible for a VAX-2406.zq.3 ship. I've lost a small ship on the planet Doom, and am, trying to get replacement parts to it before the hull erodes away.

Sorry, Affy, didn't see you there. Now are you saying you want serial numbers whiped from these items? Or would you like me to use more... conventional suppliers? We wouldn't like an upstanding memeber of the community to be associated with, well, you know.

*Walks in. Grinning at Affy, but then hearing that Affy's trying to make a legitimate legal deal*

Affy, you've not sent another ship to Doom, have you? You know that that planet's like a Bermuda Triangle for space ships. You should stop sending ships to salvage the stuff from that planet. It's not worth the loss in profits you'll get.

*Turns to Red*

Red, I was wondering if you had any robots that would be suitable for maintenance work aboard the Draco. I've been doing some extra checking, and have found that I'm short a few maintenance droids in a the brig. I plan on getting prisoners from time to time, so I should make sure I have no fewer than twenty bots for maintenance in that area at a time.

~Hesitates~

Affy, does it bother you that he's buying bots from me? You know I don't want to compete with you, we run entirely different buisnesses.

KL, I have some bots -- but I'd rather not talk about them at the moment. They're, well, highly experimental. Something the Rodentars have been working on.

Affy, I'll sell you some legitimately obtained parts in exchange for ammunition for the Snowzars you sold me. I've got a shipment coming in from an arms company that sells to me in order to move a higher number of weapons, equipment, ships, etc.

Red, Affy knows that I'll only buy something from him at my most desperate.

KL, I think these bots are the kind of thing Affy WOULD get uptight about. I'll come by your homepage for a demonstration

Yes, these robots will suffice for the kind of work I have in mind. Put me down for seven, all charges will be sent directly to your STUMPED account.

*Arches eyebrows suspiciously*

Ah, I get it. Top secret STUMPED stuff. I won't interfere for now. But I'll be back...

*Slowly backs out of the room*

If Gorgolax does not return as a customer, it may be neccissary to kill him, just to keep him quiet. Hopefully he'll come back and purchase something, so that he may live.